I don’t. Politics is the greatest strength of the human species. Ants and wolves and elephants are pretty political compared to snakes or rats, but humans are the most political animal by several orders of magnitude. It’s their capacity for political organising that made the Pyramids, and Bioshock, and put a man on the moon, and created Avatar
Lol I feel like our greatest strength could be defined in a better way, particularly considering what “politics” has gotten us in pretty much every single civilization… Collapse
I don’t. Politics is the greatest strength of the human species. Ants and wolves and elephants are pretty political compared to snakes or rats, but humans are the most political animal by several orders of magnitude. It’s their capacity for political organising that made the Pyramids, and Bioshock, and put a man on the moon, and created Avatar
Lol I feel like our greatest strength could be defined in a better way, particularly considering what “politics” has gotten us in pretty much every single civilization… Collapse
Politics also made all those civilisations.
When a society all agrees not to eat all the potatoes now, but to plant some underground and wait for them to grow more potatoes, that’s politics.
When an artist and a programmer agree to divide responsibilities and make a video game together, that’s politics.
When a discord moderator decides to force everyone to agree to a no politics rule, that’s politics.
I’m disagreeing with you, fundamentally:
spirituality & religion ( those are separate dimensions ) & secular-projects & other motivations are real: it isn’t all politics.
Political-motivation is a dimension, but an aweful lot of human action isn’t politically-motivated.
Some people can’t tolerate that to be even-possible, of course…
Planning isn’t self-inherently political.
< shruggeth >
Some ideologues won’t ever allow that any human meaning exists outside of their ideology’s framing, & that’s that, though.
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